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"Additionally, six one-page 'Mind Tinglers' challenge readers to actively think about and experiment with their own senses, making the text both educational and fun. (Nonfiction. 9-12)"

Based on the premise that our senses "help us navigate the world," Jackson explores how they affect our lives and delves beyond the five familiar senses to include coverage of topics such as dreaming, intuition and even the super senses of animals.
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Jackson offers an illuminating "Tour De Face" that pauses at each feature, lips to hair, for a look at its function and variations, then goes on to examine how we recognize faces, how our faces change to reflect age or emotion, and how and why people alter their looks.
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"Though this lacks the sparkle of some earlier titles in this consistently interesting series, the subject is bound to appeal to middle-school extremophiles. (further explorations, glossary, sources) (Nonfiction. 10-14)"

Scientific fieldwork takes Paul Flaherty, Hazel Barton and Steve Sillett to dangerous heights and depths in this latest entry in the Scientists in the Field series, which presents three biographies connected by their format.
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"Another in that appealing line of grace-under-pressure heroines. Gershten's first is also the first to win Barbara Kingsolver's Bellworth Prize, awarded 'for a work of socially or politically engaged fiction.' Stronger even than that, however, is the emotional engagement here."

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